Aaand I’m back after my long hiatus! Thank you for your patience. First things first; confession time, I reached exactly 0 words total on my NaNoWriMo project. Sigh. My first challenge was that I was too engrossed in In the Afterlight the last in Alexandra Bracken’s Darkest Minds trilogy. This was released just a day or so before NaNoWriMo, which was just mean! I really couldn’t put the thing down. I found this last instalment in Ruby and co’s story to be engrossing and wonderfully satisfying. I probably won’t do a full review on it as it’s been a little while since I read it, but it got a five star rating from me on GoodReads. Then in November things became unexpectedly crazy at work and I spent all day every day working my butt off to keep our support queue under some kind of control. After that the last thing I felt like doing was coming home and writing. It was much easier to delve into someone else’s world than to work on creating my own. These are all, excuses, I know, and I’m not proud of myself. Maybe next year I’ll do better. Other non-reading events in my…
This week I have been continuing with Diana Gabaldon’s Outlander series which I’m reading as a mixture of Kindle ebook and Audible audiobook. Have I mentioned before how much I love Whispersync for Voice? The ability to switch between the two media without having to worry about finding your place is pure awesomeness. Anyway, I digress. I finished Outlander this week and have moved onto Dragonfly in Amber. I have to say, my rereading of the series is enhanced by the Starz series. When reading about Claire and Jamie’s adventures it’s great to be able to imagine Catriona Balfe and the deliciously edible Sam Heughan in the roles. It might even be able to get me past that point in Voyager where I lost interest in the series. This week I’m back on nightshift for a week to cover a coworker’s vacation. I fully expect to spend my time monitoring servers in the company of Jamie, Claire and the others of Clans Fraser and McKenzie. In other news, I’ll be going on blog hiatus for the month of November, so this will be my last entry for a while. I have decided to take part in NaNoWriMo. For those of…